Hats Off To The Buskers
- The View
- Band Name: The View
- Record Label: Columbia / 1965 Records
- Release Date: Mar 13, 2007
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90The View are a study of all the essentials of British rock & roll.
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If 'Hats Off...' is slightly too much, too soon, they've still done enough to impress.
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80[It] burns with pop ambition. [Feb 2007, p.105]
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80Their lack of artifice is a godsend. [Feb 2007, p.81]
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80There's enough talent here to suggest that the hype around The View at the moment is thoroughly justified - hats off to them indeed.
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It would be disappointing if this turned out to be the best debut album of 2007 - there's nothing particularly original here - but Hats Off to the Buskers is nonetheless a record that re-energises melodic guitar music in the most irresistible fashion, recalling the euphoric punch of Oasis' Definitely Maybe or the Strokes' Is This It as it does so.
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[The] good half is legitimately exciting.
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70The quartet has the virtues of youth... and some of the drawbacks. [May 2007, p.106]
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70These young Scotsmen have grime to spare, along with a belief in rock's power to rescue them from it. [Mar 2007, p.99]
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A cannily considered, thoroughly de nos jours mix of punk, skiffle and music hall-bred power pop which fizzes with energy and affects a brash charm, but adds little to Barat's and Doherty's original blueprint.
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70Hats of to the Buskers has a few top-notch tunes up its sleeve, but it generally fails to match the thrilling energy and shambolic charm of the [Libertines]. [#24, p.94]
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70It's nowhere near as definitive a piece of work as the Arctic Monkeys' debut-to which it will inevitably be compared-but neither is it an empty product fuelled by baseless industry hype.
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In a vacuum, Hats off to the Buskers exists as a charming, innocuous piece of work, perfectly fine for mass appeal; in the real world, Falconer and company are gonna have to grin and bear just a few more Arctic Monkeys references.
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62Like so many debuts, Hats Off to the Buskers is ultimately a document of a band searching for their own voice in those of others.
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60They're not without their charms.
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50For the most part Hats Off To The Buskers is second-tier British post-punk.
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The View isn't bad, it's just that it's almost completely indistinguishable from countless other post-Pete Doherty, '60s-inspired Brit-rock bands. [#17, p.88]
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JJ.1This album is pure crap. British "rock n roll" is officially dead.
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MartinF.10This is an amazing album. Truely inspirtional and has brung rock music back to life. Great stuff guys!